"This fully updated edition of a classic text explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research and experience to ensure high levels of learning. Models of Teaching combines rationale and research with real-life examples and applications in the classroom, showing how teachers can improve student attainment. The volume contains all the major psychological and philosophical approaches to teaching and schooling, including thoroughly documented research on the models of teaching and their effects on student success, and offers teachers the tools to accelerate student learning. Features include: Three completely new chapters covering the origins of models in teaching, best practices for teachers coaching other teachers, and school renewal; Scenarios for each model to explore the concepts in action; Discussions of research relevant to each model throughout the text; Advice from the authors about the use of the models in teaching; Support for incorporating the Common Core Standards. Withthe aim of providing a strong impact on student achievement while keeping in line with the current emphasis on standards-based education, this classic resource will be essential reading for pre-service and new teachers. This text is supported by extensive multimedia materials, including video demonstrations of the models in action, PowerPoint slides and an extensive Instructor's Manual, available at www.modelsofteaching.org"--
This fully updated edition explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research to ensure high levels of learning.
This fully updated edition of a classic text explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research and experience to ensure high levels of learning.
Models of Teaching combines rationale and research with real-life examples and applications in the classroom, showing how teachers can improve student attainment. The volume contains all the major psychological and philosophical approaches to teaching and schooling, including thoroughly documented research on the models of teaching and their effects on student success, and offers teachers the tools to accelerate student learning. Features include:
- Three completely new chapters covering the origins of models in teaching, best practices for teachers coaching other teachers, and school renewal;
- Scenarios for each model to explore the concepts in action;
- Discussions of research relevant to each model throughout the text;
- Advice from the authors about the use of the models in teaching;
- Support for incorporating the Common Core Standards.
With the aim of providing a strong impact on student achievement while keeping in line with the current emphasis on standards-based education, this classic resource will be essential reading for pre-service and new teachers.
This text is supported by extensive multimedia materials, including video demonstrations of the models in action, PowerPoint slides and an extensive Instructors Manual, available at www.modelsofteaching.org.
Foreword
Preface
Preamble
Part One: Models of Teaching and Communities of Learners
Chapter 1: The Search for Effective Ways To EducateIntroducing the Models of
Teaching
Chapter 2: Creating Communities of Expert Learners: Building on Our Students
Capacity To Learn
Part Two: Basic Information-Processing Models of Teaching
Chapter 3: Learning to Learn Inductively: Exploring Data Sets, Creating
Categories, and Developing Concepts
Chapter 4: Scientific Inquiry: Building Learning Around Investigations and
Teaching the Culture of Sciencing
Chapter 5: Concept Attainment: The Explicit Teaching of Concepts
Chapter 6: The Picture Word Inductive Model: Developing Literacy through
Inquiry
Part Three: Special Purpose Information-Processing Models
Chapter 7: Synectics: Teaching the Left Brain to Put the Right Side to Work
Chapter 8: Memorization: Getting the Facts Straight, Now and for the Long
Term
Chapter 9: Using Advance Organizers to Design Presentations--From Lectures to
Courses, Including Media
Part Four: The Social Family of Models of Teaching
Chapter 10: Partners in Learning: Getting Everybody on Board
Chapter 11: Group Investigation--the Classic
Democratic-Process-Inquiry-Driven Model: Beginning with a Puzzlement, a
Problem, or a Project
Chapter 12: Role Playing for the Study of Values
Part Five: The Personal Family of Models
Chapter 13: Nondirective Teaching: The Learner at the Center
Chapter 14: Inquiry Training
Part Six: The Behavioral Family of Models
Chapter 15: Using Explicit Instruction and Metacognition When Teaching
Reading Comprehension
Chapter 16: Mastery Learning: Bit by Bit, Block by Block, We Climb Our Way to
Mastery
Chapter 17: Direct Instruction: Applied Psychology Goes to Work
Part Seven: The Conditions of Learning and Educators as Curriculum
Developers, Learners, and Leaders of School Renewal
Chapter 18: The Dynamics of Disequilibrium: Making Discomfort Productive
Chapter 19: The Conditions of Learning: Creating Curricula and Designing
Instruction
Chapter 20: Teachers Coaching Teachers: Facilitating Learning and
Neutralizing the Discomfort of Change
Appendix: Peer Coaching Guides
References and Related Literature
Index
Bruce Joyce is a practitionerscholar in education, who has previously held professorships at the University of Delaware, USA; The University of Chicago, USA; The Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Canada; and Teachers College, Columbia, USA.
Emily Calhoun, former Coordinator of the League of Professional Schools the University of Georgia, USA, is currently the director of The Phoenix Alliance in Saint Simons Island, Georgia, USA.
